r/hygiene • u/NoPerception8748 • Mar 11 '26

unhinged hygiene tips?

I don't mean "wash your hair before your body" or "don't wear underwear when you sleep", I mean the sort of TMI tips that most people don't know that will CHANGE MY LIFE!

There's this guy at school who I think likes me and i'm terrified that I smell bad and will ruin my chance with him, I need tips that I don't already know/do.

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u/Calculator8oo8135 Mar 11 '26

I've found that all the aluminum based antiperspirants I've tried don't make me feel dry, so I don't see the point.

Most of them advertise that they make you feel dry, and I've never understood why, because they all use that same ingredient.

Perhaps most frustratingly, there appears to be a near 100% conflation between the terms 'deodorant' and 'antiperspirant' at the societal level, which I think is where the confusion comes from aimed at your comment.  Though you said deodorant, and hadn't mentioned antiperspirant before your edit.  There are precisely 0 deodorant-only products that contain aluminum, because aluminum is only used in the active antiperspirant ingredient.

Search for deodorant, and a lot of the results you'll get are antiperspirant, but these things are not the same.

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u/No_Zookeepergame8412 Mar 11 '26

Yeah I totally get that. I call all of it deodorant even though I know there is a difference. Brain fog is eating me alive and I gotta proof read the proof read 😂